Chapter 459 455. Harvest Festival Celebration (Ten)
Shudong hurriedly put down his chopsticks and ran out with Luo Shaoan to take a look.

I saw a huge crowd of people gathering again.

In the direction where people were gathering, there were loud sounds of gongs and drums, making it extremely lively and bustling.

Luo Shaoan followed the tree hole and ran over to it, then he went into the crowd again to take a look inside.

So this is the community fire.

Like a parade of floats.

At the front is an eight-member drum band.

With gongs, waist drums, suonas, bells, cymbals, etc., the party goes as lively and as loud as possible.

The band was followed by a land boat with a female performer in it.

A man dressed in yellow clothes and with a white beard, dressed as an old man, was rowing in front.

Following behind was a land boat, on which the boatman took red and green silks, paper flowers, colored lanterns, mirrors, tassel strings, bright red flower balls, and all kinds of decorations and piled them on top, with red and green flowers thrown around, making the place as fancy as possible.

In the words of the audience in the live broadcast room, [Ah, it hurts my eyes]

Nothing else, just lively.

The white-bearded boatman paddled the oars as if rowing a boat, while the boatwoman on the land boat took small steps, floating to the left and right to the beat of the drums, drawing an arc as she moved forward.

Following behind was a yangko team of thirty-two people in four rows and eight columns.

They were also dressed in colorful clothes and played their own drums.

Clang clang~start to choke~~Clang clang~start to choke~~
The dancer fan came over.

It's over again.

Further back is the stilt team.

Everyone in the live broadcast room was shocked. The stilts on Tianhan's side were made of sticks that were two meters high, and the man was more than three meters tall, like a giant, almost reaching the top of the tree.

The first row coming towards us turned out to be four monkeys.

All dressed up as Sun Wukong.

He marched forward with great strides, pressing the team forward.

The monkey was followed by Guan Gong.

After Guan Gong comes Bao Gong.

Behind Bao Gong are White Snake and Xiaoqing.

Two long worms led the Eight Immortals...

Anyway, they are all familiar characters and can be recognized without any name tags.

but.

Why are all the stilt team members so keen on showing off?

Seeing that there are so many people around, they don't walk properly, but walk on such high stilts, and they have to do some fancy moves to show off their skills, right?

When Lan Caihe walked in an 8-shaped step, Tieguai Li had to jump on one leg.

He Xiangu then said, “I’m going to swing, I’m going to swing~~” Her swaying movements caused bursts of exclamations, and many people thought she was going to fall.

As a result, he stood steadily and waved to the people below.

Looking at it all, it turns out that the first four monkeys were the most stable.

And next...

[Why? Why is it so upside down…Why did Bao Gong do somersaults???]

"Because the Shehuo also requires competition. When we perform Shehuo here, we have to compete. If we put on a Sun Wukong on the street, we have to put on Tathagata on the street. We have to win."

"Later, we couldn't get out of it, and we couldn't win, so we had to compete with each other to see who was better."

"One year on the second day of the second month, on the main street of Nanzheng, two groups of social performances performed for several hours, from day till night, and the whole county was jammed."

[You guys are so crazy too]

Forty or fifty people on stilts managed to survive the whole journey.

The folk art procession came to an end, and the most spectacular scene appeared.

A dozen strong men lined up in two rows, carrying a huge frame like a sedan chair.

How big is it?
It is about five or six meters high, really taller than the treetops.

It is very long when stretched horizontally, long enough for five people to stand on it.

The big shelf is divided into two layers. On the lower layer, two people stand on the left and right, representing the civil and military gods of wealth respectively.

In the middle of the upper layer there is a man with a red face and long beard, wearing a green robe and golden armor, holding a gold ingot in his hand.

It’s about the God of Wealth.

On the left and right sides of Guan the God of Wealth are two children, dressed as boys, waving silk ribbons in their hands, one with "招财" (attract wealth) written on it, the other with "进宝" (bring in treasure) written on it.

A shelf of God of Wealth.

Luo Shaoan was still talking, "This is the Xuantai Community Fire, the most famous community fire here, and also an intangible cultural heritage project."

"It's too narrow here to move around, so we only built two floors."

"The tallest hanging platform for community firework performances is more than ten meters high and is divided into five layers. More than a hundred people are carrying it below, and the people on top have to perform movements..." He spoke beautifully to himself.

But no one in the live broadcast room was listening.

I sneer at the feudal superstitions of today's young people. I kneel in front of the temple of the God of Wealth for a long time and cannot get up.

The live broadcast room directly turned into a wishing well, and everyone was making wishes in it.

[Seek to get rich], [Seek to get rich quickly], [Seek to win the lottery], [Seek to get ashore]

[A believer wishes to have a balanced diet of meat and vegetables throughout her life, in exchange for a life of wealth and glory]

She understands equal exchange.
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Luo Shaoan and Shudong, following the flow of people and the community performance team, left the sports venue and walked slowly along the road.

Cross a stone bridge and reach an island in the middle of the lake.

This island is quite big, about one square kilometer.

It is probably the most important venue for this Harvest Festival.

Two other roads also converge here.

There are also many stalls on the island, but they are not gathered together like the previous ones, but scattered everywhere.

There are fewer stalls selling snacks, but more stalls selling toys and things.

Most of the items sold are handicrafts and takeaway specialties.

I mean, it's time to spend money.

Luo Shaoan has a childlike nature and once again takes Tree Hole around looking for fun things.

"Would you like to play ring tossing? Ten rings for ten dollars, for big geese."

"What do you mean by big goose?" Shudong looked in the direction Luo Shaoan pointed.

It’s really a big goose.

An area was enclosed with a low fence, and more than twenty geese were penned inside.

Live.

When people go over, they start cawing and flapping their wings. They are very lively and noisy.

"How do I do it?" Shudong was a little tempted.

I've never played goose trap before.

"Just put it around its neck. It's my treat."

Luo Shaoan did what he said and ran over quickly to buy ten circles.

"Give him another fifty yuan after interplanting, and he can help stew the goose in an iron pot. It's delicious."

There are also follow-up services, which makes Shudong even more attractive.

He took a hoop, aimed, and threw it at the goose.

"Hey, why is it hiding?"

"Nonsense, it's not stupid, it will be dead if it gets caught..."

[Hahaha, that's absolutely true. Your entertainment is its life, and it must be more focused than you are]

[What a clever goose, what a cunning boss]

[Look at their pot, the clean one has never been used]

[Open today, no goose lost its life]

[Only those who don’t believe in evil lose their money]
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Luo Shaoan also lost ten dollars and got nothing.

The two laughed at each other and went to find something else to play with.

"Hey, what is this? It's a pot tossing game."

“Have you ever played it?”

“I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never played it.”

"Try it? Twenty dollars for ten arrows..."

Throw, throw, throw, "Got it!"

Throw, throw, "I hit it again!"

“Another hit!”

"Four, five!"

"I won five. Five! What's the prize?"

Shudong himself didn't expect that he would be hit by five of them. It was completely a coincidence.

I even just watched it for fun and didn't even look at what the prizes were.

The stall owner didn't expect that someone could actually hit five. He was stunned for a moment before saying, "Wait, I'll go get the prize."

After saying that, he left Luo Shaoan and the other two behind and ran to the woods behind.

"hug?"

(End of this chapter)